31The second word overturns the game board (Episode 265)
thud…
thud…
Snowfall’s heart was beating loudly as if it were broken. Feels like your heart is about to jump out of your chest.
“Ugh….”
“are you okay?”
Kuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…
Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure…
The sound grew louder and quieter repeatedly..
- …snowfall, open the door.
“Ugh….”
My head rang so loudly that I couldn't tell exactly whose voice it was..
My physical condition was not normal..
Huh?…
Snowfall that takes your breath away.
“what's the matter? Could it be because of the sparring just now?….”
“no, that's not it….”
A sound that suddenly subsides.
I didn't know what happened, but I spent an hour anyway..
“ha….”
“It's okay?”
nod…
Kang Seol nodded slightly and placed his hand on his chest..
‘What on earth….’
right then.
Couuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-!
“Ugh…….”
“hey snowfall!”
dump…
Snowfall suffered a huge shock to her chest and collapsed..
“My energy and blood are distorted! Lay it down here!”
“snowfall!”
Bleep.…
The sounds around me are receding.
Snowfall's consciousness sank down below..
* * *
Knock… Knock…
The deeper you go, the stronger the pressure becomes..
Snowfall's consciousness, which had been falling asleep, was met with intense pressure..
Sigh…
“Ugh….”
“…snowfall.”
rattly…
Kangseol was barely able to support his body as he fell when he heard someone calling him..
“who is this?”
“Who do you think it is??”
Now he could immediately recognize whose voice was calling him..
“ur.”
“Still, I guess I haven't forgotten it..”
“haha….”
A spirit wearing glasses appeared in front of Kang Seol..
“I found the clue to nothingness.”
“That's really true?”
“okay. and… The emptiness has already been completed.”
“…what?”
Ur and other summons who have not been able to join Kangseol because the void has not been completed..
“Then why….”
“Besides this, I also found out why it took so long..”
Sigh…
Ur calmly raised his glasses and said.
“The normal way to open the door to nothingness is not to open it here, from within..”
“…….”
“You must have noticed, right? In other words, the door to nothingness is not for me to open, it is for you to open it..”
nothingness.
What was needed to open the place, which was extremely efficient for a simple training space for familiars, was the power of Snowfall, not Ur..
“Nothing like what happened during Karuna happens. When I made the connection in a really ignorant way, it was as if heavenly luck had followed me. It won't happen again.”
“But opening the door from this side... I am….”
I can't do it.
“why?”
“That's right... I am….”
Because it's not immortal.
Because I am not that strong and wise..
Suddenly, this thought occurred to me..
‘no… That's not what I was trying to say….’
Wasn't it??
I am…
“Open the door, snowfall. I'll be waiting.”
“sleep….”
Cheeeeeeeek…
* * *
While she was unconscious, Snowfall was taken to bed and laid down as close to the fire as possible..
Several needles were seen sticking out of several areas of the body where the skin was exposed..
“So, my body keeps cooling down.….”
“Ugh….”
“woke up!”
“snowfall!”
Kang Seol raised his upper body with Chiu’s support..
“Ugh… what happened….”
“Are you out of your mind? you suddenly lost your mind.”
“ah….”
When Kang-seol seemed to have come to her senses, Hye-myeong smiled..
“ha ha ha! Well, it’s impossible not to be shocked by sparring. He seemed calm on the outside, but that was hurting me, so next time, if anything goes wrong, tell me..”
“…….”
Kang Seol didn't even have the energy to respond to Hye Myeong's reaction..
This is how the night passed with so much commotion..
And the next day, everyone was relaxed because there were still nearly two days left until entering the ruins of Wattala..
Snowfall, except for one person.
“Shut up….”
Snowfall frowned and her face turned red. He looked like someone in urgent need of going to the bathroom..
“ha….”
widely! Tension released.
- Open the door, snowfall. I'll be waiting.
Ur’s words still ring in my ears.
Ur clearly said he would wait.
Probably means there's nothing left for you to do..
‘So how do you open it??’
Even if you were to open the door, there was no way to know where the door was, how to open it, or whether the door even existed in the first place..
- Is it true that this person fainted once and developed a habit of pooping in his pants after waking up??
- I'm not tired of it yet, but it looks like I'm working on it..
- I hope you succeed. Oh, looking at your expression, I think it leaked a little bit.!
- Wishing for a safe delivery!
Unaware of his speed, viewers now dismissed Kang Seol's efforts as eccentricity..
“…karuna.”
- yes. master.
“You said you crossed the gate when you came here?”
- Yes, there definitely was a door.
There is no better advisor than an experienced person..
Snowfall asked Karuna what happened when she came from nothingness to here..
“What exactly did the door look like??”
- It was a bit of a narrow door. The door was so old that I was worried that it might break just by pushing it open..
“hmm….”
- I don't know if the explanation is appropriate, but what should I say... I guess I should say that the door I came through was not the one originally made for entrance and exit, but rather a door left just in case..
In short, the gate that Karuna crossed was a special route, not a regular route. So, should we say that it is a hidden route that often appears in games?.
‘How on earth did Karuna get through that door??’
If even Ur had been described as heavenly luck, it would have been an absurd probability and it would have been a path of asceticism..
Karuna forced himself to overcome the odds and reach this place..
If I had failed, I would probably still be wandering in vain..
Once again, I thought it was great loyalty and will..
- The door... I'm sure there were more.
Karuna adds one sentence.
Kang Seol became interested in those words..
“why do you think that?”
- I felt it when I was wandering in nothingness. A huge presence somewhere. I just couldn't find the exact location..
“Hmm….”
Obviously there is a door.
But can it be opened??
‘When I was immortal, I thought it would be easy because things were solved so easily.….’
The construction of directly experienced nothingness is usually not complicated..
What Kangseol tried to say to Ur in the lapse of consciousness.
‘i am not immortal.’
he was not immortal.
The nothingness that Jiang Seol was struggling with was not as strong or wise as the immortal he had built himself..
‘Well, that doesn’t mean there isn’t an answer..’
There must be a way.
“Shut up….”
Kang Seol gathered strength and concentrated her mind again. Since the door does not refer to a physical space, I believe the answer lies in the mind..
- I started giving strength again.!
- It's starting again!
- Yikes! happy!
* * *
second night.
“ha….”
Even though I worked hard all morning and afternoon, there was no significant result..
Actually, it wasn't something to be so discouraged..
If you take the steps step by step as you have done so far, it will someday be possible to open the void and find the door that Ur mentioned..
‘no. If you open it so late, problems may arise..’
Kang Seol knew what trials Hyemyeong would face later..
And I also knew that my current self was not of much help in that ordeal..
‘Unless he regains some of his strength, he cannot be of any help and the same past will repeat itself..’
In the past, Hyemyeong used the wilderness spirit to overcome crises. Since Kangseol came to retrieve the wilderness spirit, he had to avoid using the wilderness spirit..
However, the fact that we cannot help Hye-myeong now ultimately leads to the conclusion that Hye-myeong has no choice but to use the Spirit of the Wild again..
The power he possessed was strong, but the opponent he faced in this ordeal was someone on whom that power did not work properly..
So, I feel impatient..
If things continue like this, we will just repeat the past. Because we won’t be able to retrieve the spirit of the wilderness..
‘But there's still time left, so I'll keep trying.’
The threat to Hye-myeong will come even later than now. It seems that the power of the golden statue has not yet been awakened at all, so it was due to timing..
At least the threat will come only after you visit the ruins several times..
‘At least until then... I wish I could open the damn door.’
When Snowfall was lost in thought, someone approached her..
“ha ha ha! Brother, what are you thinking??”
It was Hyemyeong..
But the name was a bit suspicious..
“Since when did I become your brother??”
“I don't remember our last night?”
“…Because of that?”
“Well then, since we helped each other grow so much, what could we be other than brothers??”
It wasn't wrong..
Even Kang Seol was able to shake off his vague fear of the words of the 10 people..
Swish-!
“receive.”
“This….”
calabash.
Fluffy…
“This smell... alcohol?”
“You guessed it right, I saved it, and we were treated to a meal and it was given to me as a souvenir of becoming brothers..”
- I said it. This bastard is not a monk. He's probably never shaved his head.
- Apostasy! We abolish the rules that block the path to truth.!
Kang Seol did not enjoy drinking alcohol, nor did he gulp down what others gave him..
But, can Hyemyeong be called someone else? Brother, no, it's him.
Additionally, upon inspection, there was nothing special added. What was in the calabash was just alcohol..
gulp…
Snowfall quenching one's thirst with alcohol in a calabash.
“It's good?”
“…Good.”
Two men sat on a rock looking at the rising moon. The vast land of the plateau filled their hearts..
“As I said before, I think you have a lot to worry about.?”
“worry….”
Kang Seol chuckled..
“I'm always worried.”
Hyemyeong responds with a chuckle..
“ha ha ha! To be honest, you are the first equal man I've ever met..”
“…….”
“Was I arrogant??”
Kang Seol hesitated to answer..
‘You shouldn't influence Hyemyeong too much..’
When a meeting with Kang Seol turns so many things upside down for Hye Myung, there was no telling how things would progress..
If Hyemyeong succeeds in ascending to heaven,?
What's worse, if you can't get over the wall and fall down,?
gulp…
“Anyway, I don't know what you're worried about when you have so much power at such a young age..”
In an instant, the snow turns white in your mind.
“If I were you, I wouldn't have any worries. ha ha ha!”
It felt strange to be praised as a strong person by the legendary horse Hyemyeong, who would challenge for ascension to become a god..
“I mean….”
Hyemyeong revealed his past history..
The past days when Hyemyeong was practicing in a small hermitage..
The persecuted Youngan tribe, Mia, who was abandoned even by the Youngan tribe, has come to see us..
Mia lost her eye before her coming of age ceremony..
Cases like this were rare, and the few cases that did occur usually resulted in disaster for the tribe. That's why it was abandoned.
“I had to protect it.”
Hunters targeting the Yeongan tribe were rampant, and their presence was a great detriment to the hermitage..
Hyemyeong left the hermitage with Mia..
“To be honest, it was luck that I got this far. And this is where I got this new statue.”
The golden statue of Wattala was still showing its teeth..
“I don't blame them for abandoning Mia.?”
“Absolutely not everyone can reach nirvana. The path to enlightenment is a path walked alone, so even sharing hardships can be too much for some people..”
“Still, sometimes I feel like a monk.”
“ha ha ha! You don't look like an archaeologist at all. It's normal for everyone.”
“That's right.”
An unknown feeling welled up in Kang Seol’s heart. It wasn't depression or boredom..
That feeling of just wanting to check something.
“Hyemyeong.”
“haha… Those words calling me somewhere sound familiar. Other than Mia, there was rarely anyone who called my name..”
“What would you be like if someone decided most of your life??”
“…That's an interesting question..”
Everything about Hyemyeong was decided by Kangseol..
How will Hyemyeong take it?.
“Well, I don't know how I'll answer, but I'd like to meet you sometime..”
“…who?”
“The person who decided my life.”
Hye-myeong doesn't recognize that person even though he's right next to her. It was like a play. But this answered many questions for Kang Seol..
The conversation with Hye-myeong gave Kang-seol a glimpse of the future, little by little, like a flashing firefly..
While I was leaving, I decided to go a little further..
“door.”
“…what?”
“There's a door inside me.”
“That sounds weird..”
“I need to open it, but I don't know how. You would know?”
“Hmm….”
Hyemyeong scratched her chin for a moment and said:.
“Since you can't open your chest and take out your heart, it must be about discipline..”
“Weeping sheep?”
“Yes, sheep. The mental part..”
Hyemyeong’s views were not much different from Kang Seol’s..
“That's my specialty too, come on! Should I ask Wattala??”
Sigh…
Hyemyeong takes out the golden statue and holds it..
“why is that?”
“Don't you know? About these ruins.”
“roughly.”
“Then you probably know about Wattala too..”
“yes.”
“Wattala is not a god... Should we call it a transcendent mental body? It is an ancient being that has cultivated training to the limit of its spirit..”
“I tend to know the details..”
“Haha, the ruins clearly show his traces. It's easy to understand because it's in pictures..”
golden statue.
What resides in this statue is the mental body of Wattala..
Wattala doesn't want anything else..
However, it helps the person with the new image to get rid of it. And I hope to spread that power to the world..
These statues, which are sometimes unearthed from ruins, are generally quite grotesque, but the golden statue is a rare statue with good intentions..
“Come on, Wattala. Did you hear Snowfall’s concerns? To open the door….”
- Arrived.
“It's coming... uh?”
Something happened that no one expected.
The golden statue opened its mouth and spoke..
It was my first time experiencing something like this, so I was dazed for a moment..
- Harm has arrived. Be prepared, good one..
That moment.
Coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo googung-!
The gate of the ruins suddenly popped up..
Hyemyeong looked around..
“why… why a day early….”
snowfall looked up at the sky.
Crying…
dark clouds were approaching.
‘no way!’
Kang Seol’s hair stood on end..
‘It's a bastard! Unbelievable….’
The evil that I would encounter after entering and exiting the ruins several times was approaching at this moment..
‘Hyemyeong isn’t ready yet.!’
Then there is one answer.
“Hyemyeong! run!”
“what?”
“Run! hurry!”
Everyone in the group was already awake because of the commotion, and they looked embarrassed when the door to the ruins appeared..
“Go in!”
“what….”
“snow red!”
“missing child!”
When Kang-seol shouted, Chi-woo, who quickly assessed the situation, picked up Seol-hong and Mia and rushed into the ruins..
Really, it was a great response..
On the other hand, Hyemyeong stopped and turned her head back to look at the snowfall..
“snowfall!”
“…come!”
Hehehehe…
Feeling like a shooting star is flying.
The meteor flew in an instant and collided with the snowfall..
“snowfall!”
[The bones of origin absorb the shock..]
[The bones of origin are in an empty stomach..]
[Primordial Bones absorb all shocks.]
Snowfall flew backwards and Hyemyeong, who supported him, was swept away by the shock and disappeared beyond the gate of the ruins..
Couuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…
The gate of the ruins that swallowed Kangseol and Hyemyeong disappeared in an instant..
“Huh... Heo Eok….”
“are you okay? What on earth is that?….”
After receiving a huge blow, they stopped in a moment of bewilderment..
The golden statue opens its mouth once again.
- Harm has arrived. It must not be taken away. Wattala's good will, her strength.
Snowfall made eye contact with the golden statue of God..
The golden statue seemed to be speaking to Kang Seol..
- Take control of Wattala's legacy.
A message came to Kang Seol’s mind..
[A sudden adventure, ‘Watala’s Legacy’ occurs..]
[This adventure is very dangerous.]
……
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